The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone is a place that exists at any moment of time, of space or of mind....but always when you least expect it. When you find yourself in this realm of unlimited possibility, be careful what you say or do. The right decisions may help you find your way back out....sometimes with greater happiness and wealth. The wrong decisions often lead to madness and death, or an eternity trapped in this dimension. Tread warily past the sign post ahead that says you've entered, The Twilight Zone
- 1959-1964
- 5 seasons
- CBS
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-PG
The Twilight Zone is a place that exists at any moment of time, of space or of mind....but always when you least expect it. When you find yourself in this realm of unlimited possibility, be careful what you say or do. The right decisions may help you find your way back out....sometimes with greater happiness and wealth. The wrong decisions often lead to madness and death, or an eternity trapped in this dimension. Tread warily past the sign post ahead that says you've entered, The Twilight Zone
Season 2 Episode Guide
29 Episodes 1960 - 1961
Episode 1
King Nine Will Not Return
Fri, Sep 30, 1960 25 mins
The pilot of a downed B-25, Capt. James Embry, awakens in the desert, with no memory of how he got there. More worrisome, his crew is nowhere to be found. He begins to wonder if he's hallucinating, especially after he sees one of his men sitting in the cockpit. When he awakens in hospital, he thinks it might have all been a dream, but wonders: did any of this really happen?
Episode 2
The Man in the Bottle
Fri, Oct 7, 1960 25 mins
Arthur and Edna Castle run a small antique shop but business is not good and they're having trouble paying their bills. Despite that, the good-hearted Arthur buys an old wine bottle from the desperate Mrs. Gumley for a dollar. When he knocks the bottle open, a genie appears offering them four wishes. They soon find that their wishes don't lead them to the outcomes they had hoped for and certainly don't lead to happiness.
Episode 3
Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
Fri, Oct 14, 1960 25 mins
Jackie Rhoades's a 34-year-old, small-time hood who lives in a cheap $4-a-night hotel room. He's waiting to hear about his next job, as 'muscle' but when George shows up telling him his next job's the murder of a bar owner who doesn't want to pay off his gangster bosses, Jackie begins to have a conversation with his alter ego who appears to him in the mirror. The alter ego takes him to task for the choices he made in his life - choices which led him to where he's been; crime, prison and broken relationships. He also offers Jackie an alternative.
Episode 4
A Thing About Machines
Fri, Oct 28, 1960 25 mins
Bartlett Finchley is an odd man, a writer who contributes to food magazines and the like. He lives alone and is always it seems in need of a repairman for one piece of household equipment or another. As time has gone by, he seems to be in a constant battle with machines - his typewriter, his television - which all have the same message for him: get out of the house. He has no intention of doing so however and the battle begins.
Episode 5
The Howling Man
Fri, Nov 4, 1960 25 mins
David Ellington recounts a story, one that began just after the end of World War I. He was hiking in Europe when he sought refuge in an abbey during a violent rain storm. The residence is isolated and its head, Brother Jerome, tells him he cannot stay. Ellington is ill however and during his short stay meets someone who is being kept prisoner and howls constantly through the night. Ellington believes the Howling Man is being kept there for no good reason but Brother Jerome tells him of the man's true nature. The decision Ellington makes will haunt him for the rest of his life.
Episode 6
Eye of the Beholder
Fri, Nov 11, 1960 25 mins
Janet Tyler is in hospital having undergone treatment to make her look normal. It's her 11th trip to the hospital for treatment and she is desperate to look like everyone else. Some of her earliest childhood memories are of people looking away, horrified by her appearance. Her bandages will soon come off and she can only hope that this, her last treatment, will have done the trick. If not, her doctor has told she will be segregated with a colony of similar looking people. All that to say that truth is truly in the eye of the beholder.
Episode 7
Nick of Time
Fri, Nov 18, 1960 25 mins
Don and Pat Carter are on their honeymoon when their car breaks down in the small town of Ridgeview, Ohio. They have a few hours to spare while their car is being repaired and spend time in the diner. There they find a fortune-telling machine, a game where you can ask a question and for a penny will spit out an innocuous answer. When the machine apparently begins to predict events - Don's promotion at work, a near accident on the street outside - a superstitious Don becomes infatuated with the device threatening his marriage and his future with Pat.
Episode 8
The Lateness of the Hour
Fri, Dec 2, 1960 25 mins
Jana Loren is an attractive young woman who lives at home with her parents. She feels suffocated living there however, surrounded by their many servants - that are in fact human-looking robots created by her inventor father. Her parents are quite happy with the life they lead but realize that they're going to have to do something about the rebellious Jana, including revealing at least one secret they have kept from her.
Episode 9
The Trouble with Templeton
Fri, Dec 9, 1960 25 mins
Booth Templeton is a renowned stage actor who has reached a stage in his personal life where he has idealized his past. In particular he has fond memories of his late first wife, Laura. After a stressful encounter at the theater, he walks out of the stage door and finds himself in 1927 where he joins his wife and best friend, Barney Flueger, for dinner at a speakeasy. It soon seems his past wasn't as rosy as he thought he remembered -- but then there's the twist.
Episode 10
A Most Unusual Camera
Fri, Dec 16, 1960 25 mins
Married couple Chester and Paula have broken into and robbed a curio shop, hoping to sell the loot for a handsome sum of money. Unfortunately, all of it turns out to be junk or fakes. All, that is, save for a mysterious camera. When they try taking a picture, it turns out to be from five minutes into the future. Soon Paula's brother Woodward joins them and the three decide to use the camera at a horse track to win big.
Episode 11
The Night of the Meek
Fri, Dec 23, 1960 25 mins
Henry Corwin is a down and outer who is normally unemployed and who definitely drinks too much. Every year he works as a department store Santa Claus. This year however, he's spent just a little too much time in the bar and is quite drunk by the time he shows up for work. He's fired of course and deeply regrets what he's done. In fact, Henry has a big heart and worries not only about the children he's disappointed at the store but about all of those children who will not get what they've asked for Christmas. When he comes across a large bag of gifts, everything changes for the kids and for himself as well.
Episode 12
Dust
Fri, Jan 6, 1961 25 mins
In a dusty old-western town, a man is scheduled to be hanged after having been found guilty of accidentally killing a child while drunk. His father begs for mercy, but the marshal has no choice but to proceed with the sentence. Sykes, an odious salesman, takes advantage of the situation by selling the desperate father "magic dust," which he says will make the townsfolk take pity on his son. Soon though, events provide for an unexpected conclusion.
Episode 13
Back There
Fri, Jan 13, 1961 25 mins
After debating with a member of his Washington club whether you could go back in time and change major events, Pete Corrigan seems to go back to April 14, 1865 the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He tries his best to warn the authorities of what will happen in a few hours time but it all falls on deaf ears. One person seems interested in what he has to say, but that person may have his own reasons for his behavior.
Episode 14
The Whole Truth
Fri, Jan 20, 1961 25 mins
Harvey Hunnicut is the stereotypical used car salesman: a fast talker who, to put it politely, is prone to stretching the truth about the cars he sells. He buys a used car from an old gentleman paying him far less that it's worth. After the deal, the old man tells him the car is haunted. Soon, Harvey finds that he can only tell the truth. Not only to customers but even to his wife as well. When he tries to sell the man's car he finds the perfect customer.
Episode 15
The Invaders
Fri, Jan 27, 1961 25 mins
An old woman who lives alone in a ramshackle farm house comes face to face with alien invaders. She hears something on her roof and then finds a flying saucer, perhaps six or seven feet across from which emerges two small robots. She fights them as best she can and eventually succeeds in destroying their ship. The nature of the invaders however is not immediately obvious however.
Episode 16
A Penny for Your Thoughts
Fri, Feb 3, 1961 25 mins
Hector Poole is a meek and mild bank clerk who with the toss of a coin can suddenly hear people's thoughts. He's slow to catch on to exactly what he's hearing but soon learns that his manager, Mr. Bagby, is having an affair and that a fellow employee, Miss Turner, is attracted to him. When he "hears" long-time employee Mr. Smithers plan to fill his briefcase with the bank's money and run off, Poole tells his boss. It doesn't quite go as planned but in the end it all works out well for Poole.
Episode 17
Twenty Two
Fri, Feb 10, 1961 25 mins
Liz Powell - an exotic dancer - is suffering from exhaustion and is being treated at hospital prior to a scheduled engagement in Miami. She has a recurring nightmare where she takes the elevator down to the morgue and is invited in by an ominous-sounding nurse, who tells her, 'room for one more, Honey'. Her doctor assures her there's nothing wrong with her physically and she's just overworked and tired. To Liz, the nightmares are very real. The doctor suggests she try to break the pattern to see if she can get them to stop. The next time she has the dream, she travels down to the morgue but the dream goes off as before. With her medical issues taken care of, and her Miami engagement a day away, it's time for Liz to leave. But is her nightmare over?
Episode 18
The Odyssey of Flight 33
Fri, Feb 24, 1961 25 mins
Global Flight 33 is en route from London to New York in what appears to be a routine flight in a modern jetliner. Suddenly however, the jet's speed increases to an incredible 3000 knots and they arrive in New York rather quickly. Neither the captain or his well-trained crew can explain what happened - a strange tail-wind perhaps - but they are certainly not prepared for what they find as they survey the land below them.
Episode 19
Mr. Dingle, the Strong
Fri, Mar 3, 1961 25 mins
Luther Dingle is a meek and mild-mannered vacuum cleaner salesman. He spends some time in a bar but always seems to be in the middle of others arguments and always seems to get the worst of it. Courtesy of visiting - but invisible - aliens, he is given great strength, some 300 times greater than that of a normal human being. Dingle becomes something of a local celebrity but just how long will his powers last?
Episode 20
Static
Fri, Mar 10, 1961 25 mins
Ed Lindsay has been living in the same boarding house for over 20 years and he has become an embittered old man. He doesn't like how the world has changed around him and his crotchety behavior has made him certainly the most disliked man there. When he turns on his old radio however, he gets music from the 1940s on a station that, it turns out, has been off the air for 15 years. There's a reason he hears the music however, a reason a fellow boarder reminds him of.
Episode 21
The Prime Mover
Fri, Mar 24, 1961 25 mins
Ace Larson owns a roadside diner. It's a dreary existence for him, his girlfriend Kitty Cavanaugh, and his friend and employee Jimbo Cobb. Through a serious accident just outside his diner, Ace learns for the first time that Jimbo has telekinetic powers. Ace the gambler sees an easy way to make his fortune, and the three of them set off for Las Vegas. Jimbo has little trouble making roulette balls fall on the right number or making any point with a pair of dice. Ace learns the hard way, however, that there can be too much of a good thing.
Episode 22
Long Distance Call
Fri, Mar 31, 1961 25 mins
Billy Bayles loves his Grandma Bayles and likes the present she's given him, a toy telephone which she says will allow them to communicate forever. Grandma Bayles is ill however and soon dies but Billy claims he can speak to her on their special telephone. When he tells his parents that she wants him to join her, wherever she's gone to, they pay no mind. When he throws himself in front of their neighbor's car however, it all gets deadly serious.
Episode 23
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
Fri, Apr 7, 1961 25 mins
Christian Horn is member of an 1847 wagon train headed west. They are 1500 miles from St. Louis and are now in the New Mexico desert. Many in the wagon train are ready to turn back but Chris wants everyone to persevere. His son has had a fever for 11 days now and Chris goes off looking for water, only 100 yards or so from the others and suddenly finds himself in the present day. He can't quite bring himself to believe what he sees or where he is but those he meets believe he's a man from the past. The trip in time does have one positive outcome.
Episode 24
The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Fri, Apr 21, 1961 25 mins
Four thieves steal $1 million in gold bullion in a train robbery and hide the money in a mountainside cave. The four plan to go into suspended animation for approximately 100 years when they hope to awaken as extremely rich men with their heist long forgotten. When they awaken, they're not quite sure what year it is. One of them, De Cruz, has his eye on getting as much of the gold for himself as he possibly can. The world they have awakened in isn't exactly what they had hoped for.
Episode 25
The Silence
Fri, Apr 28, 1961 25 mins
Jamie Tennyson is an overly talkative member of a private men's club. He is challenged by fellow member Col. Archie Taylor to keep his mouth shut for one year. Should he do so, he would win $500,000. Taylor dislikes Tennyson and if nothing else, finds this a way to get a bit of peace and quiet at the club. Tennyson will live in a room in the club, under observation and will communicate in writing only. As the months go by, Taylor begins to worry that Tennyson may just succeed. He can't believe Tennyson's will but neither party proves to be completely honorable.
Episode 26
Shadow Play
Fri, May 5, 1961 25 mins
When Adam Grant is found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced he lashes out telling everyone that he will not be murdered again. Grant claims to be having a recurring nightmare where he is found guilty and executed. The characters around him change and so he argues that all of them will vanish if he dies. It leads newspaperman Paul Carson to question what is real and what might just be a figment of someone else's imagination. DA Henry Ritchie visits Grant in jail and decides to try and do something about his claims, no matter how far-fetched his claims might be.
Episode 27
The Mind and the Matter
Fri, May 12, 1961 25 mins
Archibald Beechcroft thinks there are simply too many people in the world. He rides the subway to work and feels like he's a sardine in a tin can. Similarly with the elevators in the office tower where he works. A fellow employee gives him a book that suggests you can accomplish anything through concentration. He decides to make people go away simply by willing that they vanish. He gets rid of his landlady who is knocking at the door asking for the rent and has a lovely ride to work in an empty subway car. He's soon lonely and bored though he won't admit it. His solution to the problem doesn't quite work out as he had hoped.
Episode 28
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
Fri, May 26, 1961 25 mins
After receiving reports of a crashed UFO, two State Troopers find tracks in the snow that suggest someone - or something - might have walked away from the crash. At a nearby diner, they find seven patrons though the driver of the bus outside says he had only six passengers. The driver doesn't have a passenger manifest and they try to sort out who is who. All claim to have been passengers on the bus but it appears there's definitely an alien in the group.
Episode 29
The Obsolete Man
Fri, Jun 2, 1961 25 mins
In a futuristic totalitarian world, meek and mild-mannered librarian Romney Wordsworth finds himself on trial for being obsolete. This future society has decided on everything people need to know. There is no God and there are no books. Society doesn't need librarians. Romney makes an impassioned plea about his rights and free will but the judge in the case, the Chancellor, will have nothing of it. The jury finds Romney obsolete and orders him to be executed. As he can choose the method of his death, Romney's plans include a little surprise for the Chancellor.
